Re: when must I reboot?
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:00:39AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> I'm a little curious as to under exactly what circumstances a reboot
> is actually necessary. I know a reboot is necessary to load a new
> kernel and that the power inside the box must be off to install or
> remove internal hardware --- are there any other times when a reboot
> is not optional?
Well, sometimes scsi scanners get finicky and the system needs a reboot. Oh
yeah, ps/2 mice. If that comes unplugged, the machine needs a reboot for
that to work.
Anyone else? :)
> For example, you can plug and unplug an idle printer without any
> difficulty. I've heard that if you shut down gpm and X and any other
> rodent-listening programs you can also change the mouse without any
> problems. I'm guessing there's a way to do this with the keyboard or
> the monitor, if maybe you could remotely shut down the console or
> something. I think you can do an "init 1" to get into single-user and
> do single-user things without losing uptime, even repartition a disk
> if you're brave. (I might try this in a couple of weeks and thought
> it would be a cool thing to tell my winfriends (and also my
> unixfriends) that I did without rebooting.)
>
> I don't intend to try all of these things (I like my peripherals,
> thanks). I'm just curious: when is a hardware reboot absolutely
> unavoidable?
>
> Rob
>
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